A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences

by Tony Crisp
Like a wooden chest, a place to store emotions. Gener­ally it represents our emotions; pride. Man’s dream: sense of social confidence; if healthy: positive sense of social recogni­tion. Woman’s dream: ability to give of oneself, good feelings about womanhood.

See breath.

Breasts in woman’s dream: Example: ‘I was about to lie down naked near my grandmother as I was caring for her, when she started to suckle my breast.

For a short time I was very frightened that she would hurt me or even suck my breast right off, but she didn’t and it felt very good as I fed her. It felt as if we were one, our bodies forming a circle’ (Kate). Here Kate gives of herself, even though frightened, and feels whole —the circle. In many women’s dreams the breasts figure prominently in a generally sexual dream. Breasts in a man’s dream: return to infant dependence; sexual desire.

A Dictionary of Dream Symbols

by Eric Ackroyd
THE HUMAN CHEST

(1) The human chest may symbolize emotions. A tight or aching chest may indicate pent-up emotion, or tension; and this may be so even if one of the causes of that symbol is purely physical — a touch of bronchitis or whatever.

(2) Female breasts may represent either mother, or motherhood / nurturing, or sexual desire.

A WOODEN CHEST OR BOX

A wooden chcst / box may symbolize your (true) self.

If there is a hint of treasure in the chest, the treasure is all the wonderful potential that lies in the as yet unexplored and unintegrated parts of yourself.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
(Bosom, Heart) Ifone has a broad and a nice looking chest in a dream, it means repentance of a sinner or being eager and willing to follow the truth and to comply with it, or it could mean making it easy to accept things that were difficult to absorb.

If a woman sees her beloved inside her chest in a dream, it means that she is suffering because of him or complaining about him, or if she is ill, it means that she will recover from her illness.

To have a broad chest in a dream also means giving preference to others’ needs. One’s chest in a dream also represents what one may conceal in it ofknowledge, guidance, heedlessness or it could represent a coffer where one hides his money. One’s chest in a dream also represents a guest, one’s wife, a rank, a position, magnanimity or generosity.

The narrowness of one’s chest in a dream represents heedlessness, or it could mean going astray, loss of money, or one’s stinginess. Ifone sees his chest turned into a stone in a dream, it means that he is a hard hearted person. However, a broad chest in a dream also could signify being unjust.

The chest in a dream also represents the house of worries and anxieties. Having chest pain in a dream denotes a sin one is being punished for, or it could mean being a spendthrift or generous in other than God’s pleasure, and the pain in the dream represents his punishment for it. Ifa man sees himselfhaving a woman’s breasts in his dream, it means that he will get married, or fall in love with a woman, or have a secret affair that will turn into a scandal.

(Also see Body’)